I could not overstate how deeply Jay's book, Negative/Positive has affected my creative life. It goes way beyond craft and art into who we are and what we value as central to our work. Lenswork, for which Jay was a regular contributor, offers a chapter in this free issue. I believe anyone will be better creatively and personally for taking this work to heart.
John

Jim and Evelyn Hughes, 1981. Photo by Bill Jay. By Jim Hughes More than three decades ago, Bill Jay jotted some words in the left-hand margin of a print from a photograph he'd snapped of me and my wife Evelyn at an SPE conference (I discovered the image itself only recently on a website dev...